Hi! I'm here from the cot_reviews community. First of all, congratulations on your nomination for Round Two of the Children of Time Awards (http://childrenoftime.creative-musings.com/awards/nominees/dw.htm).
We try to review all of the nominated stories in each round, and in today's post we've featured your story (http://community.livejournal.com/cot_reviews/8747.html). Please feel free to stop by and look.
I want to leave you a slightly more substantial note here than I did on the actual review, since I try to keep those short. (Drabbles, you know.) I hadn't read any of this series before I read this drabble, and didn't quite get it the first time. So I went back to read the entire series.
My goodness. I sit here utterly amazed and what you attempted, and what you accomplished. The series, as a whole, is one of the best things I've read in the last month, hands down. I will say that this specific drabble is not my favorite (I think my fave is the Ambassador's Tale), but as a whole, I love the series. I love how you were able to condense an entire person in 100 words - and as you went on, you were able to cover more than that one person.
This drabble, as I read it, isn't just the Medic - it's the Other Doctor, too. And there are some that aren't just themselves, it's everyone else. (Carmela comes up quite often, as does Etienne and Jimmy Stone and a few others.) This entire world that you've painted for us, which surely existed aboard the Valiant, in all its levels of loyalty to the Master and loyalty to themselves - absolutely shines.
I wanted, so badly, to be able to write about the series as a whole, but due to the confines of the way the drabbles are set up, I could not. So I'm letting you know here. The review I've posted at cot_reviews is positive, yes, because I don't post otherwise, but it doesn't say a quarter of what I wanted to tell you.
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We try to review all of the nominated stories in each round, and in today's post we've featured your story (http://community.livejournal.com/cot_reviews/8747.html). Please feel free to stop by and look.
I want to leave you a slightly more substantial note here than I did on the actual review, since I try to keep those short. (Drabbles, you know.) I hadn't read any of this series before I read this drabble, and didn't quite get it the first time. So I went back to read the entire series.
My goodness. I sit here utterly amazed and what you attempted, and what you accomplished. The series, as a whole, is one of the best things I've read in the last month, hands down. I will say that this specific drabble is not my favorite (I think my fave is the Ambassador's Tale), but as a whole, I love the series. I love how you were able to condense an entire person in 100 words - and as you went on, you were able to cover more than that one person.
This drabble, as I read it, isn't just the Medic - it's the Other Doctor, too. And there are some that aren't just themselves, it's everyone else. (Carmela comes up quite often, as does Etienne and Jimmy Stone and a few others.) This entire world that you've painted for us, which surely existed aboard the Valiant, in all its levels of loyalty to the Master and loyalty to themselves - absolutely shines.
I wanted, so badly, to be able to write about the series as a whole, but due to the confines of the way the drabbles are set up, I could not. So I'm letting you know here. The review I've posted at
Congratulations again, and good luck!